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by greentext 3y ago
How do people still use Windows? Windows 7 was great, but after that it felt like someone scraped together bloat, telemetry and spyware and called it "Windows".
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by greentext 3y ago
It is time to crack down on tech giants. Break them up already. We can beat them, so stop joining them.
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by greentext 3y ago
> These days only corporate or institutional-backed open source projects are allowed to propagate. What do you mean? Can you unpack this?
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Ask HN: Do Notes Apps Help?
2 points by greentext 3y ago|1 comments
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by greentext 3y ago
What's a "real" problem, though?
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by greentext 3y ago
Magnet is sweet. Magnet and Little Snitch are the only Mac utility apps I've bought. Essential software with no bloat or stupid business practices I've encountered yet.
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by greentext 3y ago
Sometimes for research purposes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release
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by greentext 3y ago
I no longer feel like a crazy person for implementing other ML stuff in C some years ago.
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by greentext 3y ago
How does one master this? I haven't taken a test in years, but the number of abstractions my mind would cycle through was a major disadvantage on timed tests.
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by greentext 3y ago
Why don't you counter knowledge with knowledge instead of profanity then? We're all waiting.
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by greentext 3y ago
Painting features => back propagation => weights. Yes it is.
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by greentext 3y ago
If I compress an artist's painting into a jpeg and rehost part of it for individual t-shirt designs I am committing a crime. If I compress an artist's painting into a model & rehost what's essentially a highly flexible
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Ask HN: How are LLMs improving or worsening your life?
5 points by greentext 3y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What code did you actually end up reusing?
6 points by greentext 3y ago|2 comments
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by greentext 3y ago
All my life I wanted to fly like the birds that you see way up in the sky. Making circles in the morning sun flying high in the sky until the day is done.
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by greentext 3y ago
It's weird having real spacial memory of places I've never been. From 30 years ago.
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Ask HN: Switch Jobs to Undo Burnout?
4 points by greentext 3y ago|3 comments
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by greentext 4y ago
I’m commenting to bookmark this. It reminds me of Ben Stein’s “How to Ruin Your Life”. These types of references are great for taking personal inventory. I can’t say I haven’t been doing a lot of these things unknowingly.
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Ask HN: Switch Careers Without Experience?
3 points by greentext 4y ago|2 comments
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by greentext 4y ago
> when I am on this limited media consumption she always comments how pleasant I am to be around IMO the news is little more than a sales pitch for antidepressants, life insurance and "retail therapy".
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by greentext 4y ago
Don't conflate procrastination with note taking systems.
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Ask HN: Is there a phone that won't spy on me?
2 points by greentext 4y ago|3 comments
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by greentext 4y ago
Ah yes, rule 2 of dating a narcissist.